Pavel Mervart Publishing Society for the History of Sciences and Technology

Jiří Janáč:
Transnational turn-over? New trends in the concept of world/ European history and their application at the history of technology studies


2011, Volume 44, Issue 2, pp. 98-116

Abstract

History based largely on artificial interpretations from a unified national point of view has become the target of increasingly systematic criticism. The limitations of a dominant national perspective surfaced in discussions of processes that are not detectable at the level of national state or that are overshadowed by hegemonic national discourse. The history of technology clearly belongs to the historical sub-disciplines in which, to certain degree, a transnational perspective is inherent by definition.

Keywords

history; transnational; technology; infrastructure; Europe; tensions of Europe

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